"What can help prevent diabetes, hypertension, cancer (particularly breast and colon cancer), depression, osteoporosis and dementia, (to name just a few)? This is no wonder drug, but a good dose of exercise.
"Physical inactivity has become the greatest public health problem of our time" states an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Should we be trained to prescribe exercise? The evidence is compelling.
"This association between physical activity and health persists in virtually every subgroup of the population, regardless of age, sex, race or environmental condition". The active patient is also a bargain, costing $1,500 less per year than the sedentary patient. Would merging the fitness and the healthcare industry be the answer?"
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Source: British Journal of Sports Medicine 2009;43:3-4"
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